to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?
Parallel translations
- KJV To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
- BSB and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?
- NKJV and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today for your good?
- NASB and to keep the Lord’s commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good?
- NLT And you must always obey the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good.
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Cross-references · 4
- Jer 32:39and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:
- Deut 6:24Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.
- Jas 1:25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
- Prov 9:12If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
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